Original owner’s vintage (early 1950’s) TIMPO (England) large format, WWII American GI Infantry lot of thirty-eight (38) figures. CONDITION: VERY GOOD. All items were purchased by the owner’s parents at F.A.O. Schwarz, Fifth Avenue, NYC. Specific pieces’ descriptions are as follows:

·        54 mm size (1/32nd), hollow-cast lead, original castings, and painting.

·        All thirty-eight (38) figures have retained their original rich, vibrant paint colors. None of the figures have been repainted, modified, or repaired. None of the figures have any dents, cracks, or damage.

·        All thirty-eight (38) figures stand or sit upright like new, on their own, with no wobbling or unbalance.

·        Lot includes rare, hard-to-find pieces:

(1)  Wounded soldier on intact stretcher with two (2) stretcher carriers.

(2)  Motorcycle rider.

(3)  Mortarman with separate mortar piece.

(4)  Two (2) sitting machine gunners.

(5)  GI shaving.

(6)  GI doing wash.

(7)  Officer reading map.

(8)  GI charging with submachinegun.

(9)  GI mine sweeper.

(10)        Officer squatting, talking on radio, holding document in left hand.

(11)        Kneeling GI on radio.

(12)        Kneeling GI with outstretched hands.

(13)        Prone, lying flat GI rifleman.

Please review the twenty-three (23) photographs to assist in your assessment of the thirty-eight (38) figures’ condition. Always kept in no-smoking homes.

Background – Timpo Toys Ltd. (“Toy Importers Company”) was a British toy company created in 1938 by Salomon “Sally” Gawrylovitz, a Jewish refugee from Germany. The company manufactured various toys out of wood, bakelite and composition until the end of WWII. Following the war, Timpo made hollow cast metal toy soldiers, with soldiers manufactured in plastic starting in 1955. Between 1946 and 1954, and with the assistance of Roy Selwyn Smith, Timpo produced some of the best, highest quality, detailed post-war hollow cast toy soldiers in the world. Timpo had a factory in Schotts, Lanarkshire. The company ceased operations in 1978.

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